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The University of Waterloo and United Nation's International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) are partnering together to offer an introductory course on aviation: "Fundamentals of the Air Transport System".

Designed by UWaterloo professor Suzanne Kearns, vice-chair of ICAO’s Next Generation of Aviation Professionals (NGAP), the course will help train the next generation of aviators as possible global pilot shortage looms.

Learn more about the course and the UWaterloo-ICAO partnership.

Renowned aviation academic Suzanne Kearns, has been named to WINGS and Helicopters Magazine’s Top 20 Under 40; a list that includes 2017’s finest young leaders in the aviation and aerospace industry.

Jazz Aviation offers new program that gives qualified aviation students a more direct pathway to a major airline.

When Jenna Yee dreamed of becoming a pilot, the University of Waterloo aviation student assumed she’d start small, spending time in the north to get her flying career off the ground.

Cameron Fuchs, Spencer Leckie, Siobhan O’Hanlon, and Chelsea Anne Edwards were the first batch of young pilots trained under the airline's intensive cadet program. And now they are all hired and flying as First Officers with Sunwing Airlines, straight out of the University of Waterloo! Congratulations!

Read the full story at the Record, with additional coverage by Sunwing Airlines, Travel Press, Exchange.com and recorder.ca.

Chelsea-Anne Edwards walks out on the tarmac to the plane she will fly. It’s a sun-drenched fall day and the third-year aviation student looks to the sky. “The clouds are pretty low,” she says. “The higher the clouds, the better.”

Commander Chris Hadfield made his Environment debut as Professor Hadfield to geography and aviation students.

Waterloo “has such a tremendous reputation both nationally and internationally. It’s such a leading hotbed of research in all different areas,” says Hadfield.

The University of Waterloo today announced the appointment of retired Canadian astronaut, Chris Hadfield, as a professor of aviation.